Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-06-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The President and party expect to arrive in
Washington Saturday.
None of the Parnellites will attend the ju-
bilee service in Westmirster Abbey.
The stranger who was shot at Andover,
Mass, died Wednesday. He has not been
identified.
O'Brien is a passenger, sailed from New York
Wednesday morning.
The commencement exercises at Vassar
College Wednesday were largely attended.
The graduating class numbered 36.
1t Is stated that the owner of the Thistle
intends to make certain alterations in her
before competing for the Americas cup.
The Suasberger Post of Berlin denies
sem-officially that Prince Won Hohenlohe
will resign the governor generalship of AL
SAGE Lorraine.
The Massachusetts House today defeated
the constitutional prohibitory amendment by
vote of i39 to "a, not the necessary two
thirds. There were three pairs.
A float containing eight box freight cars
loaded with merchandise, which was being
towed, sank Wednesday morning off Hunters
Point, and five of the cars went down.
The Mahdi, at the recent council of war at
Omdermann, decided to refrain from making
attacks on the frontier, because such hostili
ties would prolong the English occupation of
Egypt.
Collector Saltonstail of Boston, today i'm
posed fine of one thousand dollars upon the
Cunard Steamship Company for permitting
an insane woman to land from one of their
vessels.
The Massachusetts, House Wednesday af-
ternoon passed the West End street railway
bill to the third reading without an amend
ment The vote against the amendment was
Al yeas and lis NAYS.
George G. Stanton, the colored bootblack
of Boston, who attempted to murder his wife
on the common Tuesday night, was arrested
Wednesday morning. She was stabbed three
times but will recover.
Ex- Senator L. II. Rollins has Withdrawn
from the senatorial canvass of New Hamp.
shire, and will not be q candidate in the eau
Gus 1t is claimed that = majority OF his
support will go to Chandler.
Queen kapoIani and suite arrived in Lon
don, Tuesday. The royal carriage was sent
from Buckingham palace to meet the party
at the depot. The Queen sao her suite pro-
ceeded to the Alexandra hotel.
An explosion Of fire damp has occurred in
q coal pit at Gelsenkrrschen in Westphalia,
Germany. The bodies of forty-one persons
killed BY the explosion have been recovered,
and twelve more are believed to be dead.
The gunboar Banterer took the sheriff Of
the county Glare and q body Of police to
Glare island where they evicted twelve ten
ants. The scenes witnessed there while the
evictions we're being executed were deplora-
BILE
The dwelling Of A. Brown of Bedford,
Ont, was burned Wednesday morning.
-Four small children, all under ten years Of
age, perished in the flames. The parents,
with baby, barely escaped from the house
with their lives.
Thirty Indians are now stated to be on the
war path instead Of sixteen, as at first report
ed. Their frst victim was Union veteran.
1t 10 feared that two white men who we're at
work at Table Mountain, ON the Oak Grove
trail, have also fallen victims to Indian vio-
lence.
hughes, the Newark pitcher, vas struck in
the head By pitched ball in the seventh in.